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Those companies would get in legal trouble in the US if they admitted to doing it intentionally by calling it a bait and switch. They hide behind legal shenanigans like putting ‘limited supplies’ in fine print.

Everybody hates being on the receiving end of bait and switch. Nobody thinks it is clever except the person committing fraud, and they hate it when someone does it to them.

Bait and switch is literally promosing something and fhen replacing it with something else, which is what happened here. It doesn’t imply any cleverness and has extremely negative connotations.

Bait and switch is a specific type type of fraud.

“I don’t understand that inexperienced people are inexperienced.”

Assuming they are referring to new graduates.

I just can’t upvote this trash story even though you are correct about the usual reason for upvoting posts even when the subject matter is terrible.

The moon landing by hand wouldn’t have been as funny without the over the top body builders first.

It is sticky and pretty much ruins clothes.

I have one about an hour away and no luck so far at that location.

Edit: oh damn, they are in stock today!

Edit2: it was one and now its gone :(

I would help out their GPU sales if they were ever in stock.

Always hated regular shaving because no matter how close the shave was it was stubbly in a few hours. I grew a goatee because I haged shaving my chin area. A decade later I started growing a beard of somewhere between a quarter inch to an inch in the winter to keep my face warm.

Now I have that short beard year round and occasionally shave the neck when it gets itchy. So much less work, it honestly feels pretty nice to have that little layer of hair keeping my skin an even temp.

Hooray for less effort!

There is one! (not related to the article)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Texas

Eight inches ought to be enough for anyone!

I’m sure AI can solve the problem!

Hard to recall them since I tend to drop them when I get stuck. If I look up a hint and find out it is something that never had any previous hints to figure out I also drop the game because nothing is more frustrating than guesswork.

Quality design will show you the important parts early on without needing to explicitly state them. Leaving that out in sequels is poor design.

I have not yet watched a film in IMAX, but we are talking about theaters in general.

Watching on a decently large screen at home while streaming looks at least as good as in the theaters even if it doesn’t fill up as much of my vision. BluRay looks a lot better for certain scenes, but the vast majority of movies are just as good at home in my experience. I can also get more engrossed in a movie at home due to having fewer distractions, so something like Dune is more enjoyable for me at home even if the picture and sound quality is probably better in IMAX.

Streaming is a tradeoff of slightly lower quality for more convenience and while I love me some great cinematography and sound design, most movies are more enjoyable if I can stay engaged than if they are presented better but with more opportunity for distractions.

but for a second line gaffer, or for a craft services worker, the cinema time might be their entire livelihood for the year.

I seriously doubt those members of the crew are paid based on box office success. Pumping out more movies for streaming should increase the number of movies that are available to work on.

Half of the movies you listed have been either on one of the platforms you listed or have rotated around the different platforms, at least in the US. Netflix even had the black and white version available when I watched it.

I don’t miss the lines and dislike crowd energy the vast majority if the time. The current buy online, know where my seats are, and smaller venues with plush seats are a vast improvement over crowds packed in like sardines.

Sure, I have a few positive memories of random members of a theater audience, they are just outweighed by all the annoying memories.

Films also used to be not a big deal for the majority of films in theaters before home movies and even up until larger format flatscreens became affordable. It was just the format for watching 90 minute+ uninterrupted stories for the most part.

There were a couple of decades where seeing big budget special effects the big screen instead of at home was a big deal for some movies, sure.